Originally posted by Skyfloating
The nation Rwanda had been living in peace and relative prosperity since hundreds of years. The Hutu and Tutsi lived side by side.
Contrast with:
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Admittedly they had a sort of caste system with the Tutsi ruling and the Hutu farming, but it somehow worked....and the Hutu had the chance to
"climb the ranks" to become Tutsi if they acquired cattle.
It "somehow worked"...
just like Feudalism "somehow worked":
Though the Hutu/Tutsi dichotomy was based more on tribal, as opposed to social, status both are things I'd shy away from claiming as "good".
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Then came the Belgians, claiming that Rwanda "belonged" to them. It had so been "decided" in Europe. The Tutsi, of course, would have none of
that. They said: "No thanks, we will keep our independence".
Actually,
most of that never happened:
Yes, it was decided that (what is now Rwanda - but then called "the Belgian Congo) would be under Belgian domination, however
the Belgians
reinforced the tribe/caste system -
declaring the Tutsi "Hamites" and Hutus mere
"negroes" - by offfering the Tutsi better employment opportunities, while ending intermarriage and therefore most social mobility between Hutu
and Tutsi:
In fact, some reason that the fact that - with the end of Belgian dominance in the Rwandan region - the Tutsi, largely due to the colonial government
benevolent towards them - had a disproportionately-large dominance over Rwanda, which may have led to the Genocide.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Angered by the Tutsi wanting their sovereignty Belgium then secretly teamed up with the Hutu and said to them: Do you want a revolution? Belgium
equipped them with anti-tutsi propaganda and heavily armed them.
Erm, no:
Belgium had
'abandoned' Rwanda decades before the
Genocide, and had almost entirely abandoned all national interests in said nation. Where are the dividends Belgium recieved - or would have
recieved - for this Genocide?
Blaming Belgium as 'causing' the Genocide for merely occupying the country at one point in time would be as fallacious as blaming a Dalit genocide
in India tomorrow as being 'caused by the British':
The Rwandan Genocide had its roots in class/tribe inequalities, and good ol' African tribalism
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Whats so disgusting is that the msm and our "education" portrays the endless Rwandan wars as the result of "tribalism" rather than showing where
the
Well, to be honest I find your - and the Left's - views that all Africa's tribal problems can be put at the feet of Racist Whitey pretty
disgusting.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
a) original motivation for war came from (in this case Germany and Belgium)
Again, why would Belgium have such interest in a
decades-free colony? And where did Germany come into this?!?!
Originally posted by Skyfloating
b) weapons came from (Belgium)
You mean the
pangas (machetes)?
The Rwandan Genocide was very primitive, technology-wise - if I was a Hutu, I'd be complaining to the Belgium embassy if that was the "support" we
recieved!
Originally posted by Skyfloating
This was not the first or last time the dumb control-freaks of our white race have set up one tribe against another. I hope to post more examples and
hope to hear examples from other posters.
And we find the root of the diatribe:
You admitted earlier that the
Tutsis had always been on top, but place the blame for the Genocide - not on Hutus tired of occupying the
"bottom rung" of society, despite forming the majority - but on a European nation(s) that had
left Rwanda decades before, and had/have no viable
interests in Rwanda.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Back in the day, before full-fledged colonization swept in, Europeans would stop at the costs of entire Africa. They wouldnt venture further into
Africa because of the harsh conditions of the unknown territory.
Correct, to an extent.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
What they found was the richest continent in the world. And what they did was pillage it. Rob it. Suck everything out of it they could.
Africa is in fact so rich in resources, that they havent stopped pillaging to this very day.
Well, "richest" is relative:
Central/South America were also the "richest" at a prior point in time - but I don't see where the 'pillaging' comes from, they were merely
extracting resources.
And the "Europeans" have stopped - it's the multinational corporations and their African accomplices doing the looting now.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
The rightful inhabitants of the country were natural people, not idiots, but simply not interested in exploiting those resources.
I'd lean towards
unable or
ignorant to extract the resources/know the value of the resources.
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